Our Approach

DigitalAid provides easy-to-use website publishing tools and personalized training in how to use them. Our goal is to empower the staff to use technology in new ways and to help build self-sufficiency.

This is especially important when it comes to building websites, because a website should be easy to update and maintain in order to ensure that content remains fresh and accurate. The content is the most essential part of any successful website.

We also support successful open source tools that have large development communities behind them. This ensures that the technologies we implement will have a long useful life instead of becoming unsupported dinosaurs that must be entirely replaced in order to add new features or functionality.

We mostly work with Drupal, a powerful open-source content management system and web development framework with a large and growing global community of contributing developers. However, we stay flexible in our toolset because so many organizations have a patchwork of technologies in place already that have been cobbled together over time.

Our primary goal is to support our clients in achieving their own missions by providing appropriate technologies critical to their success. In this way we also support the development of strong and healthy communities, innovation, and social change.

Our primary experience lies in working with nonprofit organizations. We also partner in various ways with like-minded technology service providers as well as strategic planning, organizational development, marketing, and communications professionals.

Our primary technology focus lies in building dynamic websites using open source content management systems. This empowers website editors and managers to easily update content, make configuration changes as needed, easily check site statistics and develop reports, easily integrate email newsletters and web content, and much more.

Our sites are fully compliant with current web usability guidelines. We aim to build technical self-sufficiency with the tools we provide, while also building long-term relationships so that clients maintain access to technical expertise when needed. In this way we also support the development of strong and healthy organizations.